SOURCE: Barton, Anne. “Livy, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus.” In Modern Critical Interpretations: William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, edited by Harold Bloom, pp. 123-47. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.
In the following essay, originally published in 1985, Barton emphasizes the historical and political themes of Coriolanus and considers the influence of Livy and Machiavelli on Shakespeare's dramatization of republican Rome.
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